Chris Moyles's final BBC Radio 1 breakfast shows beaten by Radio 4
Published Oct 25 2012, 01:10 BST | By Christian Tobin
Chris Moyles's BBC Radio 1 breakfast show hit its lowest audience in six years before his departure, it has been revealed.New RAJAR figures show that the DJ's average weekly audience in the three months to September 16, 2012 was 6.73 million listeners - its lowest audience since 2006.
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In the third quarter of 2012, Moyles was beaten by Radio 4's Today programme by an average of 200,000.
The long-running current affairs show featuring John Humphrys and Evan Davis attracted an average weekly audience of 6.94m during the period.
For Radio 1, it was a further slump compared to the figures of the second quarter of 2012, when the listenership came to 6.93m.
Overall, while Radio 1's average weekly reach was down 5.5% year-on-year to 11.19 million, Radio 4 pulled in 10.85 million listeners weekly, up 2.7% year-on-year.
Photo gallery - Chris Moyles's career in pictures:
Chris Moyles on his first day on BBC Radio 1 breakfast back in 2004.
"It's been awesome. Thanks to the team who've been great, and the listeners who are more than just people that listen to the show."
Moyles, who hosted his final breakfast show on September 14, was replaced by Nick Grimshaw.
Grimshaw has received the backing of a number of his Radio 1 colleagues, such as Zane Lowe, Greg James and Scott Mills.
Watch the last segment of the Chris Moyles Radio 1 breakfast show below:
im thinking digital spy is pro grimshaw.
October 27th 2012 at 2:12am
nick grimshaw is better than chirs moyles
October 26th 2012 at 1:51am(+1 like)
please explain why, so we can discuss.
October 26th 2012 at 3:34am(+1 like)
Probably because he can spell "Nick Grimshaw"! chirs?!?
October 26th 2012 at 8:03am(+2 likes)
Dombo,he will struggle. He had the radio 1 emblam behind him. Over the next ten years he wont have any big insstitution behind him. Look at ex radio one breakfast hosts. Even in the days of huge personalities many didnt go on to be anything. Moyles is ugly,fat, charmless and has the warmth of a rattlesnake. You can hope all you like,but every quiz show he has tried has failed. Glad hes made some money because he can buy a big house in Leeds and live his life there again.
October 25th 2012 at 11:06pm
Nonsense.... Moyles signed with James Grant (agent) literally just before he left R1!
To clarify who James Grant is, he is an agent.... think of him as Uk's answer to Ari Gold, and on his books he has such nomarks as Ant and Dec, Davina, Phillip Schofield, Holly Willoughby and others.
You don't need an emblem, you just need a good agent!
If what you say is true about his attributes, then you are calling Lord Webber a poor judge of character... hmm good luck with that assumption
October 26th 2012 at 1:52am
@Jim, because you don't like him doesn't mean everyone doesn't like him. Even if he doesn't make it big on the telly, he could still do a radio show.
October 26th 2012 at 8:09am
Who cares is he is overweight? Being overweight has not stopped him from becoming successful! Image isn't everything!
November 7th 2012 at 9:15pm(+1 like)
*If
November 7th 2012 at 9:16pm
"Lies, damned lies, and statistics" ;)
Over 4 times as many people listened to the final Chris Moyles show than listened to the first Grimshaw show on the iPlayer.
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/iplayer/iplayer-performance-sep12.pdf
October 25th 2012 at 7:55pm(+1 like)
It is so boringly easy to regurgitate these figures. Chris Moyles had the show for the longest time, of course the figures are going to go up and down. I do not believe that "talentless and dumb" Grimshaw is going to be doing it better or for even half as long tbh..
October 25th 2012 at 7:30pm(+6 likes)